TH-9 Venting

This may sound like I'm complaining, well, I am. It is so difficult to save up for the th-9 upgrades because I keep getting steam-rolled by th-10 players and more advanced th-9 players. It is frustrating me to the point I'm about to walk away because I refuse to spend $ on the game to gem my base or troop upgrades. So far, as a TH-9, I have all the new defenses up to max th8 levels, my DE drills to level 3 and 4, level 6 loons, giants, barbs, two level 7 mortars, and upgraded army camps and my AQ to level 5. I think I'm doing pretty well so far, but it's aggravatingly maddening that I get within a couple hundred thousand gold to start my third mortar upgrade or the DB level 5 upgrade only to be rolled by a much higher player to the tune of 300K resources of each lost. I realize this has happened at every th level, but it feels so much more magnified due to the number of stuff lost. Right now, I am sitting in Gold-2, trying to decide to push to Gold-1 or drop to Gold-3, thoughts anyone?

what is your trophy lvl? my guess is that you need to drop trophies. When I started at TH9 I stayed in silver 1 to gold 3 and had no issues keeping my storages full. As I progressed I move up trophies!!

Ok, this is not different than what happened to you as a TH8. Yes the amount is slightly larger, but you have 1 more storage to divide your available loot. Of course it will happen to you more as a newish TH9 than once you become more advanced. Your farming and layout will have to become more precise and refined. As with all games CoC will not get easier as you go along, as you progress certain things get easier, but most get tougher.

A few things you could answer so someone could help with your problem.

1) What is your base layout?
2) What are you farming habits? (i.e. league, session length, days per week, troop comp., etc)
3) How many builders do you have?
4) What is your clan priority farming, war, combo of both?

P.S. Hang in there TH9 is the best part of the game.

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Originally Posted by james65

what is your trophy lvl? my guess is that you need to drop trophies. When I started at TH9 I stayed in silver 1 to gold 3 and had no issues keeping my storages full. As I progressed I move up trophies!!

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I just dropped to gold-3; going to try that league out for a bit

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

Ok, this is not different than what happened to you as a TH8. Yes the amount is slightly larger, but you have 1 more storage to divide your available loot. Of course it will happen to you more as a newish TH9 than once you become more advanced. Your farming and layout will have to become more precise and refined. As with all games CoC will not get easier as you go along, as you progress certain things get easier, but most get tougher.

A few things you could answer so someone could help with your problem.

1) What is your base layout?
2) What are you farming habits? (i.e. league, session length, days per week, troop comp., etc)
3) How many builders do you have?
4) What is your clan priority farming, war, combo of both?

P.S. Hang in there TH9 is the best part of the game.

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I just switched to Yango's Royal River farming layout, seeing as I NEVER come across that layout in my "Next"'s. Farming habits are typically GiBaArch and usually done 6a-3p EST-US, five days a week, with wars on the weekends. I have 4 builders and my clan priority is a combo with focus on farming and weekly war. I want to hang in there seeing that I am not the type to give up, but it is very frustrating at times, which is why I've dropped a league to hopfeully have a little more success.

At any point in your entire CoC journey, you will always get steamrolled by higher-level and more powerful/experienced players and losing lots of loot in the process. It's a natural thing. Just like how you attacked those TH8/7s for their loot as well..

The only thing you can do is to steal more from other players what other players stole from you. Raid more than what is raided from you. When people steal 300k from you, make an effort to steal 600k from others. How else are you gonna save enough resources for those expensive upgrades like the 14 day, 7 mil upgrade from lvl 2 to 3 Xbow?

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Originally Posted by sithhappens44142

I just switched to Yango's Royal River farming layout, seeing as I NEVER come across that layout in my "Next"'s. Farming habits are typically GiBaArch and usually done 6a-3p EST-US, five days a week, with wars on the weekends. I have 4 builders and my clan priority is a combo with focus on farming and weekly war. I want to hang in there seeing that I am not the type to give up, but it is very frustrating at times, which is why I've dropped a league to hopfeully have a little more success.

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Sorry, but if you are farming for 9 Hrs, you should be able to spend all of your loot. Not only that your storage's should be full and 300k wouldn't even matter to you.

As with all TH lvls, farm for a target that day, if you need to save one resource up try to minimize the other resources. Stagger your builders and time your farming such that your builder will be ready when your loot is.

FWIW: I never farmed th9 that low in trophies. I have had 0 issues farming in G1. Barch is love Barch is life! Try to make your own base design if that one is getting rekt.

This may seem irrelevant, but I find it is not....what level walls do you have? If using a farming base, the SCARE factor will lead to many more snipes if the walls are higher. It has little to do with the strength of the walls, but MUCH to do psychologically. I get a 20-1 snipe ratio with high level walls and tend to attack those with lower ones.

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Originally Posted by sithhappens44142

This may sound like I'm complaining, well, I am. It is so difficult to save up for the th-9 upgrades because I keep getting steam-rolled by th-10 players and more advanced th-9 players. It is frustrating me to the point I'm about to walk away because I refuse to spend $ on the game to gem my base or troop upgrades. So far, as a TH-9, I have all the new defenses up to max th8 levels, my DE drills to level 3 and 4, level 6 loons, giants, barbs, two level 7 mortars, and upgraded army camps and my AQ to level 5. I think I'm doing pretty well so far, but it's aggravatingly maddening that I get within a couple hundred thousand gold to start my third mortar upgrade or the DB level 5 upgrade only to be rolled by a much higher player to the tune of 300K resources of each lost. I realize this has happened at every th level, but it feels so much more magnified due to the number of stuff lost. Right now, I am sitting in Gold-2, trying to decide to push to Gold-1 or drop to Gold-3, thoughts anyone?

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I have been sitting with 4-5M gold for a couple of days because all 5 of my builders are busy on defences (3 teslas, 1 xbow, 1 queen). Even with this, i haven't got looted more than 2 of my gold storages till now. And it's mostly snipes and failed attacks. I got about 140 lvl 9 walls too, staying in gold 1.
Maybe you walls levels are low? I don't know, i am enjoying th9 a lot. I never thought it would be so easy to farm. :o

stop breaking shield after every raid. If you raid 3 times in a row you will gain more than you can lose no matter what. Defenseless bases can save up resources so can you.

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Originally Posted by Morgauth

stop breaking shield after every raid. If you raid 3 times in a row you will gain more than you can lose no matter what. Defenseless bases can save up resources so can you.

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This is a good point. Dont break your shield unless you plan on being on the game for awhile. If you know that you have to work, whatever stay under shield until you are ready to sit and play!!!

When my town hall first finished to nine, I was in Gold one with about 1850 trophies.

Now, with max defenses and working on legos, I still sit in Gold one with trips to crystal sometimes.

Gold one has always worked for me using barch, and I NEVER farmed near s much as you. I have been at town hall nine since October 13, 2014.

Try Gold one! It might be your next favorite spot. :o

I second the point about the walls. I went to th9 with full skulls and I never once got steamrolled. Never been 3 starred, never lost more than two of the same storages. The walls scare people, that is the single most important thing about the walls. As many people say, flying units, wbs and jump can all easily deal with high level walls, but the intimidation factor is what makes them truly worth it.

If there's two th9 with the exact same level of defenses and same layout, I can guarantee you the one with gold or pink walls gets steamrolled while the one with full legos only gets sniped.

Set your base to farm (put your TH outside) and stay in gold for a good long time. Going into crystal with weak defenses is a bad idea. Once you get to crystal and masters you will see a lot of loonian armies and THEY WILL WIPE YOU regardless of your walls.

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Originally Posted by Hinkdad

Set your base to farm (put your TH outside) and stay in gold for a good long time. Going into crystal with weak defenses is a bad idea. Once you get to crystal and masters you will see a lot of loonian armies and THEY WILL WIPE YOU regardless of your walls.

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From the OP "Right now, I am sitting in Gold-2, trying to decide to push to Gold-1 or drop to Gold-3, thoughts anyone?"

His question has more to do with why currently getting wiped. He is nowhere near the upper leagues. Walls MATTER at his league if he wants to keep resources. The number of people using loonion is so small as to be near non-existant in the lower leagues and easily discounted in making decisions that affect keeping resources.

Get a better farming base. I have been 2 starred 3 times since getting to th9 3 months ago and I'm in Crystal2.
Use barch for best efficiency.
Raid in blocks so you only get attacked every 12 hours.
My 5 builders have been busy 24/7 and I play about 2 hours per day

If you are getting rolled for 300k resource each, can't you just cook up a strong army during the shield time and roll another player for 300k resource each as well? (minus the elixir cost of the army, of course).

You should at least be able to roll a similar TH9 or even TH8 for all they are worth.

I just finished maxing TH9 and dont ever remember my base getting rolled, 95% of the time it's sniped even with Max loot and DE available. This was between C3 and Gold2...mainly Gold 1 for the lootz.

The few real attacks were 50% loss at most...thinking OP has low walls, low AD, Master's league, or TH is in. I had full lego's shortly after turning TH9 and maxed my Xbows and AD first. Lvl 7 AD and max Xbows up dissuades the looners and Lego walls usually had the ground looking for easier pickings